Public Health Officer
Company: United States Air Force
Location: Saginaw
Posted on: May 17, 2024
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Job Description:
KEEPING OUR FORCES HEALTHY
Caring for the health of our Airmen also means helping preclude
illness before it can affect our community. Public Health Officers
apply public health, preventive medicine, and medical entomology
knowledge, techniques, and skills to promote health and reduce the
incidence of communicable/zoonotic/vector-borne diseases,
occupational and environmental illnesses and injuries, food-borne
diseases, and disease and non-battle injuries while in-garrison and
deployed. Public Health Officers constantly monitor conditions and
potential health threats. These specialists promote public health
through epidemiological surveillance of health and disease trends
in populations, as well as monitoring food safety practices, and
sanitation levels in public and food service facilities.
REQUIREMENTS
You must meet several requirements before joining the Air Force.
These concern your background, overall health and other standards
set by the Air Force, Department of Defense and federal law.Minimum
Education
Note: all applicable degrees must be from accredited institutions
and programs and applicants must have/maintain a 3.0 GPA or higher
on a 4.0 scale for all applicable degrees.
Qualifications
For Public Health Officers, knowledge of basic epidemiology,
microbiology, food technology and hygiene, communicable diseases,
occupational and environmental health, -and medical entomology.
For Medical Entomologists, knowledge of medical entomology,
arthropod biology, vertebrate and invertebrate hazards, and
Integrated Pest Management principles.
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